Italo Toselli

Dr. Italo Toselli works in the Adaptive Optics Group at Fraunhofer IOSB in Ettlingen, Germany. He received his M.Sc. (2002) in Electronic Engineering from the University of La Sapienza (Italy) and his Postgraduate Master in Information Technology (2002) from the Cefriel-Politecnico di Milano (Italy), followed by his Doctorate (2008) in Electronics and Communication Technology from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Before starting his doctorate, he was an officer in the Italian Navy. During his doctorate he spent more than two years at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, where he worked with Professors Larry C. Andrews and Ronald L. Phillips. From January 2010 to October 2011 he held a postdoctoral position with the National Research Council at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. From September 2013 to June 2014 he was an ERCIM Marie Curie Fellow at the same institute where he is currently employed (Fraunhofer IOSB). From June 2014 to May 2017, he was a researcher at the Department of Physics at the University of Miami, Florida, before returning to Fraunhofer IOSB. Dr. Toselli is co-author of about 40 journal and technical articles dealing with the propagation of laser beams through random media, and he is a reviewer of the most important journals in the field of oceanic and atmospheric propagation. He has been an invited speaker at SPIE and OSA conferences. He is a leading member of the OSA, a member of the SPIE and a committee member at the most important conferences in his field.